Dmitry Kopylov

Dmitry Nikolayevich Kopylov (; born 2 March 1988), known as The Youth Maniac , is a Russian serial killer and rapist who killed four women and one man around the Chelyabinsk Oblast from 2004 to 2005. He is noted for the fact that he committed all of his crimes before reaching the age of majority and that he is one of the youngest serial killers in modern Russian history.

Biography Dmitry Nikolayevich Kopylov was born on 2 March 1988, in the village of Krasnoye Pole, Chelyabinsk Oblast. The only son of poor alcoholics, Kopylov's mother died from heart failure in the early 1990s, and not long after, Kopylov's father was reported for encouraging his son to drink alcohol. As a result, the young boy was taken away by social services and put in an orphanage.

During his stay there, Kopylov became increasingly impulsive and violent, leading to him being repeatedly disciplined by staff for committing various crimes and gaining a reputation as a bully. According to his father, he would often bring kittens and hamsters from the local market, which he would then torture to death. All of his victims were subjected to violent sexual acts, with one of them having a lit cigarette burned on her genitalia.

Kopylov's first victim was a 40-year-old woman he confronted near some railroad tracks, whom he hit on the head with a stone and then stabbed multiple times with a knife. After she died, he stole her jewellery and personal items.

LBO pedophile case

In 2020 Dmitry Kopylov was arrested in a pedophile network case. Kopylov, under nick name Lover Boy Only (LBO) kidnapped a kid with attempt of murder. Kopylov was sentenced to 19 years imprisonment.